I “was” going to catch up on my blog work today, but I sort of ran out of time. Bunch of new anime post waiting for me to write about such as the new Fate/stay night (I haven’t been this excited about an anime since Bleach). Then there was the pya! catchup work which I’ve decided to postpone indefinitely while I play Final Fantasy VII as the title of this entry suggests.
FF7 sort of came out at the wrong time for me. I’ve personally played FF3 (SNES), FF8 (PS), and FF9 (PS). I’ve never beated anyone of them, though for FF8 and FF9, I did reach the final disc, but the enemies just got too hard and I got tired of leveling up. What basically happened for FF7 was that it came out before my Playstation was modded and although I ended up “getting” the game, I never really played it.
I actually got FF7 for PC awhile back, but I came to the conclusion it wasn’t compatible with Windows XP because the game wouldn’t respond to any keyboard input. Apparently I was wrong and Eidos was stupid when they were deciding on the keyboard configuration. If I had read the README and not be a dumbass and just go uninstall it immediately, I would’ve learnt that the entire gamed used the NUMPAD keys to play and navigate. Fortunately, a friend lend me the game again and I’m finally playing the game regarded as one of the best RPGs ever.
However, the game was not immediately compatible with XP right out of the box. You can download the Final Fantasy VII XP Patch 1.4. The title shows it as 1.3 patch, but during installation you’ll notice that it’s actually 1.4. Since FF7 was such an old game, it doesn’t even support the newest 3d rendering engines, but supports the likes of Voodoo and 3dfx. So basically, you’ll be playing with a software 3d rendering engine, which isn’t noticable at all, since they recommend that if you’re going to use the software rendering engine, you should have at least a Pentium 300MHz. One of the problems I noticed immediately was all the in-game movies were flipped, inverted, and upside down. This was okay initially, but it got annoying and was giving me a headache. It took me awhile to find the patch for this, since the game is so old, but I finally found the support document on it. However, the link it provides is no longer working. However, the UK site is still hosting the file needed to fix the inverted video problem: ff7betap1.exe (other patches available here too). A useful site with a bunch of patches are: FF7 Universe.
My first impressions of the game were well… I literally alt+tab out of the game and said this in an IRC chat room: I’m playing FF7 on pc and I can’t believe how bad the graphics used to be. Then again Eidos screwed up the keyboard layout for the entire game, forcing me to play with the numpad. However, as the game went on, I got really into it. I told myself I was going to stop playing at 2am because I needed to poop (pretty badly too), but after telling myself that I’d stop at the next save point, I continued playing till it was 3:30am. Krunk is SO CUTE!! Well, Cloud that is. I always named the main characters Krunk in Final Fantasy or any other RPG since I’m basically playing him. Tifa and Aeris are cute too! Cute in the sense like plushies and not like cute girls. I can see myself wanting Tifa and Aeris plushies now. Tifa in Final Fantasy VII Advent Children was a lot hotter. The gameplay so far is so fun and I’m pretty sure I haven’t even completed 10% of the game yet. I’m at the part where they’re about to blow up Sector 7 because they found out where AVALANCHE was and I have to warn them.
Here’s the comparison of in game Tifa and Advent Children Tifa.
Here’s the hot Tifa in Advent Children:
In game Tifa screenshots courtesy of Final Fantasy Shrine:
I did however see the scene where Cloud comes up to Tifa when her father was killed as shown in Last Order: Final Fantasy VII.
There goes my next few weekends.
Yo the new Final Fantasy 7 DVD rules I have watched it 24 times now since it came out!